In his ‘Unwritten’ series, Vernon Ah Kee creates images of abstracted faces and bodies. The artist shapes these forms through repeated charcoal lines that read as cuts in the surface of the paper, suggesting the infliction of violence and suffering. Rendered without distinguishing features, the figures are voiceless — in the process of emerging from the pages and not yet human or fully formed. Born in 1967 — the year that Australia voted to change the Constitution to count Indigenous people in its population — Ah Kee explores the treatment, perception and inclusion of First Nations peoples in Australia.